Enough Horsepower for 1920*1080P?

[Hippiekiller]

Would something with power around the same level as an 8800GT be enough to run new games @ 1920*1080?

Concerning Settings:
I am not concerned with AA because the jaggies haven't really bothered me once gaming res moved up to 1280*1024, so I will likely not run any AA at 1080P resolution. I would like to be able to run new games with most of the detail options on med/high to highest settings for around 2 years hopefully. AF i would be fine even as low as 4x but would turn that up as high as I can without performance degradation.

Concerning HDTV's used as Monitors.

I am considering an upgrade to be able to use 1080P resolution in order to hook up to my Philips 42" 1080P HDTV. Any quirks or issues known that effect using HDTV as Monitor? I will be connecting through an HDMI port and will probably have to split the 1/8" Audio to two stereo RCA plugs since my old ass audigy doesn't have an optical port.


Specs are:
E2140 @ 2.8ghz
Gigabyte DS3R IP35 Mobo @ 350mhz FSB
2 Gigs Ram
7900GT
Audigy


I will have a Quad Core penyrn based chip eventually if the E2140 starts to give me speed issues but its handled everything perfectly so far. And once I need DX10 I will go vista and add another 2gb of ram so dont consider my Current CPU and Ram when making recommendation. I envision a quad core around 3.2+ghz to be on my board in the future.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ares202]

For the most part yes, but i doubt youll get that res on crysis without significant slowdowns

 

[sutahz]

I have a 8800GT 512MB, 42" Vizio 1080p HDTV (not that the size of the TV matters, 1920x1080 is 1920x1080). Last night was my first night playing Crysis. I put everything maxed out, a slide show w/ audio out of sync. Put everything on med (AA on 4x) and has run smooth thus far (going to up quality settings tonight, im thinking 1/2 or so can be on high, the rest on med, based on what another user has typed up on these forums).
As far as making the HDTV a good monitor. When I first hooked it up what was aweful was the color (greens and red were aweful, way too saturated). Black text on a grey background (think any windows information window) cast a white shadow or something that was very annoying (and hurts the eyes). To make it look right I hooked it up right next to my Samsung 225BW and tried to make them look alike, as well as using an online color calibrating guide.

 

[DaveBC]

Originally posted by: sutahz
I have a 8800GT 512MB, 42" Vizio 1080p HDTV (not that the size of the TV matters, 1920x1080 is 1920x1080). Last night was my first night playing Crysis. I put everything maxed out, a slide show w/ audio out of sync. Put everything on med (AA on 4x) and has run smooth thus far (going to up quality settings tonight, im thinking 1/2 or so can be on high, the rest on med, based on what another user has typed up on these forums).
As far as making the HDTV a good monitor. When I first hooked it up what was aweful was the color (greens and red were aweful, way too saturated). Black text on a grey background (think any windows information window) cast a white shadow or something that was very annoying (and hurts the eyes). To make it look right I hooked it up right next to my Samsung 225BW and tried to make them look alike, as well as using an online color calibrating guide.

I use a 720P HDTV @ 1360x768. Try increasing your Digital Vibrance to 25-30%. Made a world of difference for me. :beer:

 

[Nobuo]

I just upgraded to a Samsung 40" (4065F) 1080p LCD TV, for use as my primary computer monitor. Looks just as clean and awesome as my old Dell 2405 24" monitor, only bigger. It actually seems to have *less* ghosting, which was a surprise to me.

I did initially have to go into Nvidia's control panel thingy and adjust the video output to fill the whole screen, as it was defaulting to some squished/blurry scaled resolution even though I was feeding it 1920x1080. Since I fixed that, it's been working like a champ.

Plan on moving it as far away from your computer chair as possible, it's a bit hard to see the whole screen if you're too close

EDIT: Oh, and I'm using a DVI->HDMI cable to hook it up. I dont know if there are quirks with VGA.